Vol. 1 — January-February 2012

• The global role of kidney transplantation
  

  Guillermo Garcia Garcia¹, Paul Harden², Jeremy Chapman³, World Kidney Day Steering Committee 2012*⁴

  (1) Nephrology Service, Civilian Hospital of Guadalajara, University of Guadalajara Health Sciences Center (CUCS) Hospital 278, Guadalajara - Mexico
  (2) Oxford Kidney Unit and Oxford Transplant Centre, Churchill Hospital, Oxford - UK
  (3) Centre for Transplant and Renal Research, Westmead Millennium Institute, Sydney University, Westmead Hospital, Sydney - Australia
  (4) * World Kidney Day (WKD) is a joint initiative of the International Society of Nephrology and the International Federation of Kidney Foundations. Members of the WKD Steering Committee are listed in the Appendix

• A population-based approach for the definition of chronic kidney disease: the CKD Prognosis Consortium
  

  Massimo Cirillo¹, Cinzia Lombardi¹, Alessandra Antonia Mele¹, Fabiana Marcarelli¹, Giancarlo Bilancio¹

  (1) Department of Medicine, Salerno Medical School, University of Salerno, Baronissi - Italy

• Reversal of diabetic nephropathy: lessons from pancreas transplantation
  

  Paola Fioretto¹, Michael Mauer²

  (1) Department of Medicine, University of Padova Medical School, Padova - Italy
  (2) Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota - USA

• Acute kidney injury in pregnancy: a clinical challenge
  

  Susana Machado¹, Nuno Figueiredo¹, Andreia Borges¹, Maria São José Pais², Luís Freitas¹, Paulo Moura², Mário Campos¹

  (1) Nephrology Department, Coimbra’s University Hospitals, Coimbra - Portugal
  (2) Daniel de Matos Maternity Hospital, Coimbra - Portugal

• Gonadal dysfunction in men with chronic kidney disease: clinical features, prognostic implications and therapeutic optio
  

  Pedro Iglesias¹, Juan J. Carrero², Juan J. Díez¹

  (1) Department of Endocrinology, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid - Spain
  (2) Department of Nephrology, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Centre for Gender Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm - Sweden

• Tacrolimus versus cyclosporine for early steroid withdrawal after renal transplantation
  

  Silvio Sandrini¹, Naveed Aslam¹, Regina Tardanico², Gisella Setti¹, Nicola Bossini¹, Francesca Valerio¹, Monica Insalaco¹, Roberto Maffeis³, Franco Nodari³, Giovanni Cancarini¹

  (1) Division and Chair of Nephrology, University Hospital Spedali Civili, Brescia - Italy
  (2) Second Laboratory of Pathology, University Hospital Spedali Civili, Brescia - Italya - Italy
  (3) Division of Surgery, University Hospital Spedali Civili, Brescia - Italy

• Functional development of a transplanted embryonic kidney: effect of transplantation site
  

  Kei Matsumoto¹, Takashi Yokoo², Shinya Yokote², Yasunori Utsunomiya³, Toya Ohashi⁴, Tatsuo Hosoya³

  (1) Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo - Japan and Project Laboratory for Kidney Regeneration, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo - Japan and Department of Gene Therapy, Institute of DNA Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo - Japan
  (2) Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo - Japan and Project Laboratory for Kidney Regeneration, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo - Japan
  (3) Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo - Japan
  (4) Department of Gene Therapy, Institute of DNA Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo - Japan

• Impact of short-duration administration of N-acetylcysteine, probucol and ascorbic acid on contrast-induced cytotoxicity
  

  Hsiang-Chun Lee¹, Sheng-Hsiung Sheu¹, I-Hsin Liu², Chien-Chih Lee³, Chong-Chao Hsieh⁴, Hsueh-Wei Yen¹, Wen-Ter Lai¹, Jan-Gowth Chang⁵

  (1) Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung - Taiwan, R.O.C. and College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung - Taiwan, R.O.C.
  (2) Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung - Taiwan, R.O.C.
  (3) Graduate Institute of Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung - Taiwan, R.O.C.
  (4) Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung - Taiwan, R.O.C.
  (5) Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung - Taiwan, R.O.C.

• Metabolic syndrome and chronic kidney disease in high-risk Italian hypertensive patients: the I-DEMAND study
  

  Giovanna Leoncini¹, Francesca Viazzi¹, Enrico Agabiti Rosei², Ettore Ambrosioni³, Francesco Vittorio Costa³, Gastone Leonetti⁴, Achille Cesare Pessina⁵, Bruno Trimarco⁶, Massimo Volpe⁷, Giacomo Deferrari¹, Roberto Pontremoli¹

  (1) Department of Cardionephrology and Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria San Martino, Genoa - Italy
  (2) Department of Internal Medicine, University of Brescia, Brescia - Italy
  (3) Department of Internal Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna - Italy
  (4) Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Ospedale S. Luca, Milan - Italy
  (5) Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Padua, Padua - Italy
  (6) Department of Clinical Medicine, Cardiovascular and Immunological Sciences, Federico II University, Naples - Italy
  (7) Division of Cardiology, II Faculty of Medicine, University of Rome «La Sapienza», Sant’Andrea Hospital, Rome, and IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli (IS) - Italy

• Smoking and hyperparathyroidism in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD)
  

  Giovanni Tripepi¹, Francesco Mattace-Raso², Patrizia Pizzini¹, Sebastiano Cutrupi¹, Jacqueline Witteman², Carmine Zoccali¹, Francesca Mallamaci¹

  (1) CNR-IBIM, Institute of Biomedicine, Clinical Epidemiology and Physiopathology of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, and Division of Nephrology, Reggio Calabria – Italy
  (2) Department of Geriatric and Internal Medicine, and Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam - The Netherlands

• Tert-Butylhydroquinone pretreatment protects kidney from ischemia-reperfusion injury
  

  Carlos E. Guerrero-Beltrán¹, Edilia Tapia², Dolores J. Sánchez-González³, Claudia M. Martínez-Martínez³, Magdalena Cristobal-García², José Pedraza-Chaverri¹

  (1) Department of Biology, Faculty of Chemistry, National and Autonomous University of Mexico Mexico City – Mexico
  (2) Department of Nephrology, National Institute of Cardiology Ignacio Chávez, Mexico City – Mexico
  (3) Department of Cellular Biology, Military Medical School, University of the Army and Air Force, University of Army and Air Force, Mexico City – Mexico

• N-Acetylcysteine protects the peritoneum from the injury induced by hypertonic dialysis solution
  

  Déborah S.S. Bui¹, Antônio C. Seguro¹, Maria H. Shimitzu¹, Igor Schliemann², Dino Martini², João E. Jr Romão¹, Roberto F. Pecoits Filho³, Hugo Abensur¹

  (1) Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo - Brazil
  (2) Santa Casa de Misericórdia Hospital of São Paulo, São Paulo – Brazil
  (3) Center for Health and Biological Sciences. Pontifícia Universidade Católica of Paraná, Paraná – Brazil

• Three-dimensional echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular remodeling in predialysis chronic kidney disease pati
  

  Ming-Jui Hung¹, Ning-I Yang¹, I-Wen Wu², Chi-Wen Cheng¹, Ping-Chang Liu¹, Shih-Jen Chen¹, Mai-Szu Wu², Wen-Jin Cherng¹

  (1) Department of Cardiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Keelung, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Keelung - Taiwan
  (2) Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Keelung, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Keelung - Taiwan

• Glycosylated hemoglobin levels are associated with cardiovascular events in nondiabetic peritoneal dialysis patients
  

  Hamad Dheir¹, Mehmet Ozkahya¹, Fatih Kircelli¹, Meltem Sezis Demirci¹, Gulay Asci¹, Huseyin Toz¹, Muhittin Ertilav¹, Timur Kose², Ercan Ok¹

  (1) Division of Nephrology, School of Medicine, Ege University, Izmir - Turkey
  (2) Department of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Ege University, Izmir - Turkey

• Regional citrate anticoagulation in critically ill patients with liver and kidney failure
  

  Rasheed A. Balogun¹, Faruk Turgut¹, Stephen Caldwell², Emaad M. Abdel-Rahman¹

  (1) Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia - USA
  (2) Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia - USA

• Plasma pentraxin-3 as a marker of bioincompatibility in hemodialysis patients
  

  Silvia Oldani¹, Silvia Finazzi¹, Barbara Bottazzi², Cecilia Garlanda², Eleonora Baldassarre³, Serenella Valaperta³, Ivan Cuccovillo², Marco Albini⁴, Maurice Child⁵, Alessandro Montanelli³, Giorgio Graziani¹, Salvatore Badalamenti¹

  (1) Nephrology Unit, Humanitas Clinical Institute, Rozzano, Milan – Italy
  (2) Laboratory for Research in Immunology and Inflammation, IRCCS, Humanitas Clinical Institute, Rozzano,?Milan – Italy
  (3) Laboratory Analysis, IRCCS , Humanitas Clinical Institute, Rozzano, Milan – Italy
  (4) Quality Assurance, IRCCS, Humanitas Clinical Institute, Rozzano, Milan – Italy
  (5) Cardiology Unit, Circolo Hospital of Busto Arsizio,?Varese – Italy

• Identification of quantitative trait loci for diabetic nephropathy in KK-Ay/Ta mice
  

  Tatsuya Aoki¹, Shigeru Kaneko¹, Mitsuo Tanimoto¹, Tomohito Gohda¹, Shinji Hagiwara¹, Maki Murakoshi¹, Yuji Ishikawa¹, Masako Furukawa¹, Kazuhiko Funabiki¹, Satoshi Horikoshi¹, Yasuhiko Tomino¹

  (1) Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo - Japan

• GM-CSF contributes to prompt healing of ecthyma gangrenosum lesions in kidney transplant recipient
  

  Marilena Gregorini¹, Michela Castello², Teresa Rampino¹, Francesca Bosio¹, Giulia Bedino¹, Pasquale Esposito¹, Giovanni Borroni², Antonio Dal Canton¹

  (1) Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, IRCCS Foundation and University Hospital San Matteo, Pavia - Italy
  (2) Dermatology Unit, IRCCS Foundation and University Hospital San Matteo, Pavia - Italy